12/17/2023 0 Comments Top 10 samples in hip hop history![]() ![]() They were also extremely influential on me growing up. DJ Premier from Gang Starr is also a massive influence and also artists like the Beastie Boys. I love Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest, he’s amazing. J Dilla was an incredible producer who really propelled sampling as an art form and helped define what the sampler could do. You often find that there’s a sample you like from someone, look up the artist and then discover that you really like their catalogue of work, which you’d never have done otherwise. Travelling to another country to go to record shops in order to find samples! It’s a concept that’s difficult to grasp now in the age of Spotify.Īnother thing about sampling, which is really great, is it does actually enable you to discover lots of artists that you probably would not have been exposed to. It’s kind of like trainspotting or I guess like Pokemon hunting now! So, for example, we would go to New York to track down that elusive undiscovered beat or track. It’s hard to compare it to something that would be similar to it today. You would go and look for samples and dig in second-hand record shops all day long in obscure places, looking for forgotten records that might contain one little gem that no one else had used yet. If you wanted to find samples, you literally went record shopping. ![]() When sampling was first introduced there was no internet. What role did sampling play in your development as an artist and producer?Īs it was such a major part of my background as a producer it’s really enjoyable to open students’ eyes up to the culture around sampling. Later on, in my career, I was fortunate to work with many famous artists including Busta Rhymes, a seminal artist from that period, when, with the Dub Pistols, we co-wrote the music with him for the Hollywood movie ‘Blade 2’. My favourite styles of music production are from that era and what is now considered to be the ‘golden age’ of hip-hop in the nineties. It was the equivalent of what punk rock would have been in the 70s, a movement or a lifestyle. The ethos of sampling, digging (searching) for samples and the whole Hip Hop culture that surrounded it was more than just the music, it encompassed various other elements such as graffiti, fashion and breakdancing. and Run DMC and Eric B and Rakim who were my main influences at that time. Around ‘87, it was artists like the Beastie Boys, L.L. It crossed over into England with this massive wave of artists in the late 80s. When I was first getting serious about music, hip hop was making its way over from the US. You could be completely independent, which is what I totally loved. You were suddenly liberated from needing a drummer or a guitar player. It was my first piece of musical technology. My first experience of independently producing my own music was when I was given an Atari computer by Pete Waterman (a prominent music mogul in the 80s) and I bought an Akai s1000 sampler to go with it. How did you get into it and how did it influence you? The sample can be anything that you’ve ‘sampled’ from another track a rhythm, a melody, a beat, vocals or speech, which you then manipulate, edit, chop up or loop to fit creatively within your work. ![]() Sampling in essence is when you include an element of a pre-existing recording by someone else in your composition. As it’s a subject that has a personal resonance with Jason we wanted to dive into its history, its influence on Jason and its relevance and legacy within the music industry today. His music has always been heavily influenced by his early interest in hip hop and sampling. After establishing a successful career working as an in-house engineer his career shifted to focus on producing and engineering for the Dub Pistols. Producer and musician Jason O’Bryan joined the team at Abbey Road Institute London as a senior lecturer in 2015. ![]()
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